{"id":1188,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:42:57","slug":"the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-checklist-manifesto-how-to-get-things-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Atul Gawande, MD<\/span> – Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2009<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this clear-eyed look at an idea that\u2019s both revolutionary and obvious, Atul Gawande\u2014New Yorker<\/i> writer, surgeon, Harvard professor\u2014examines a technique that was started in the Army Air Corps in 1935 and embraced in recent years by the medical profession: the checklist. Now in use in a variety of hospital settings, from the emergency room to the operating room, \u201cchecklists help with memory recall and clearly set out the minimum necessary steps in a process,\u201d Gawande writes. They also, as he ably documents, save lives. Within three months of their introduction into ICUs in Michigan hospitals, for example, infection rates plunged by a staggering 66 percent. Using case histories to illustrate his point, Gawande makes an airtight case for the importance of this inspired, yet simple tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Atul Gawande, MD – Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2009  In this clear-eyed look at an idea that\u2019s both revolutionary and obvious, Atul Gawande\u2014New Yorker writer, surgeon, Harvard professor\u2014examines a technique that was started in the Army Air Corps in…<\/span><\/p>\n

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